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Along those lines, the census agency says most STEM graduates do not work in STEM fields: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/07/10/census-stem-g

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• waps 12y ago
  Anyone who is smart enough to calculate the differential of equations is smart enough to see there's little money in those jobs. You see this in practice. STEM graduates do 3 things, in my experience. Work in management, work in IT, and work in academia. I wouldn't count on any of having up-to-date science knowledge except the academic ones.
  • hga 12y ago
    Plenty of them with serious math chops, such as MIT EECS graduates, become quants in Wall Street and the like, at least for a while.
    • freyr 12y ago
      > Plenty of them Wall Street does draw some students from the math/physics/EECS departments of the very top ranked schools, but this represents a tiny percentage of students graduating nationwide with STEM degrees.
• jandrewrogers 12y ago
  There are an enormous variety of STEM degrees, particularly the "science" part, that have little economic value relative to the number of people with degrees produced e.g. marine biology. In many of these STEM fields the expected wage is essentially lower middle class because the supply of graduates greatly outstrips jobs. Not everyone with a STEM degree is a computer scientist or an engineer. If you are one of the countless thousands of people with a low-value science degree then not only are there few jobs at any pay scale but you will likely make more money doing something else in any case.